Re: GCC 3.1 Release

[Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com>]

On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 04:01:34PM -0800, Joe Buck wrote:
> > 4260 -- Is it HPUX?  Is it libtool?  Is it libstdc++?  Is it collect2?
> 
> No idea.  But is this issue even relevant for the 3.1 release, where minor
> ABI breakage is *planned*?  (to fix some ABI conformance bugs).  If not,
> then it's not a blocker for the release.

That's my opinion also, but I'm not a HPUX user.


> > 5396 -- This is one of those PRs that got set to high by the submitter.
> >         I plan to test this myself as soon as I get a working build
> >         on solaris.  Debugging this kind of thing is a nightmare, since
> >         printing out local and member variables in gdb fails with some
> >         kind of RTTI error, so stepping through the I/O library doesn't
> >         really gain anything.
> 
> Is this a sync-with-stdio issue?  Does turning off synchronization make
> the performance bug go away?

The submitter's testcase is using fstreams, so it doesn't look to be s-w-s.

I started a solaris bootstrap just before I posted my summary, and it's still
going, so I haven't had a chance to poke at it yet.


Phil

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